Let the protesters gather in one place, have their event, and disperse. No march. I’m reluctant to believe that the Met can’t police a rally properly if it puts its mind to it.
It can’t create the conditions for stability in Gaza and work towards a two-state solution with the present Prime Minister in place.
The Development Minister put on a therapy class for Opposition MPs which included laughing at the Home Secretary.
It is essential that the US, in particular, keeps alight the flame of a two-state solution as and when this, the only solution, could have stronger support.
I have written to university leaders, and will ask the Office for Students to investigate whether official responses to hateful conduct or open support for Hamas have been appropriate.
“If it were this country, and it was in proportion, we’d be talking about ten thousand people killed… and how would we react?”
This way of thinking also contrasts with the naive counting of the civilian dead. In this tradition, war can be a necessary evil, but that judgement requires attention to its practical consequences.
The sum total of all this is that Hunt’s wiggle room for tax cuts this Autumn is shrinking even further.
The Immigration Minister adds that “we have confidence that Israel will take all the steps that it can in the circumstances to avoid civilian lives being lost.”
A police force that sends six officers to arrest a silently praying Christian woman, but lacks resources to stop our streets from flooding with violence, is not one that reflects the values of a Western democratic society.
Netanyahu may have said: how would you feel, were you lectured by countries without an independent judiciary, let alone the free press, minority rights and fair elections that we have in Israel?
The horrors in Israel and Gaza compelled solemnity and unity for only part of the time: free debate survives.
But the Prime Minister also upheld with steely determination “Israel’s right to defend itself in line with international humanitarian law”.
Although support for Netanyahu and his ministers, already unpopular before the war, has dwindled since its start, this has not impacted the nation’s resolve.